jsdz @ jsdz @lemmy.ml

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Well, they're both pretty good.

Xfce starts off closer to the way I like things and requires less messing around with the config to get it all the way there. It changes less frequently, which I appreciate. It uses slightly less memory, seems to go wrong less often, and has fewer things I have no interest in like 'kwallet' or whatever. And I appreciate what seems to me its more approachably modular nature (which I've used only for a couple of minor things.)

"KDE Plasma offers a more native development experience for the team and therefore it is easier to maintain. This is the main and only reason for this switch"

As a user I switched from KDE to XFCE, and found it to be an improvement. But I've never done any development involving Xfce.

Wow, 2015. Back when they had to hire actual humans to write bullshit like that.

It's generally okay with the big games of 2020, so probably.

I've got an older Nitro 5 which has served me well the past 4 years. Build quality is great compared to most other laptops I've had. Mine has no problem running Linux.

*with the exception of some who have specific disabilities

When X.com eventually gets around to making its own window system, they may be in legal trouble. Perhaps the resulting lawsuit can raise enough money to get X.org development going again.

People who find that "frustrating" have led too sheltered a life.

I get my news from the only reliable source and I recommend going with MX Linux.

It will have no practically significant effect. Websites do not have access to browser chrome css properties. The worst it might do is change the dimensions of the viewport in a way that makes your browser fingerprint slightly more unusual, i.e. the same thing that would happen if you set the UI to "compact" mode.

Is EVE Online still going? It appears to be. It's a somewhat challenging game and very different than what you're used to, but it really was fantastic for getting to meet good in-game friends way back when I played. Of course some of them would eventually betray you, take all your stuff, and leave your dead corpse floating in space, but even so it's very much a team game that may be what you're looking for if you happen to be into spaceships and/or spreadsheets.

Some test code made it in before they stopped it due to the public reaction, but it was never functional in mainline chrome.

The next question is whether they'll be evil enough to try the same with the web environment integrity thing. We know you're thinking about it, Google. Drop the Staff of Dread Zombies and back away from the corpse before somebody gets hurt.

Lazy loading of images through the mechanism controlled by that setting is relatively new, and many sites unfortunately still have javascript to do something similar in browsers that don't support it.

It'd be nice if Firefox could let us turn off the new feature in a way that's undetectable without specific measures to look for it, but it seems extremely unlikely that Mozilla will ever find that worth the effort of doing. In some cases you might be able to just block a single script with noscript or ublock, but all the implementations are different and there's no general solution unless maybe if you find or create an extension specific to that purpose.

It got rebranded as the “Topics API” and is now live in many people’s web browsers.

I'm pretty sure the main system startup bottleneck is me typing the disk encryption passphrase.